Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of KMO
Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 1999 10:19 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Utopias
Reed Konsler wrote:
> We must each oppose that evil in every way we can imagine...
I don't agree. I think we should oppose evil with courage, ingenuity, rationality, faith, intelligence, creativity and compassion, but we should not oppose evil by adopting its methods; something I can certainly imagine.
> and one critical way is through what Richard describes as "goodwill".
> We need faith that our common vision will carry us through the
> darkness. Most certianly we need this faith in the darkest times, when
> all evidence seems against us.
We need faith that no circumstance, no oppression, no emergency is accute enough to justify adopting those elements of the enemy's technique that we dispise.
> And when we have succeeded...struggle will not end, life will not end.
> It will just shift up an octave. We will unweave the rainbows and reweave
> them according to our own design.
Amen to that, brother Reed.
> ...we can
> never be the perfect exemplars of our future vision becuase we each bear
the
> marks of our history. It is our duty to do our best to point the way and
to
> avoid vomiting our pain and anger into the next generation...
Amen to that, too.
-KMO